Joaquin Niemann, Ryo Hisatsune, & Thorbjorn Olesen all gained special exemption today into the 2024 “The Masters” It was a great call by Augusta to invite these international stars and it shows that with all the animosity in the game right now, the ANGC are the ones setting the tone and actually acting like adults.
Welcome to 54 live shorts I am your host diggies and today February 21st Wednesday is a great day because Yao Wen Neeman has punched his ticket to the masters with a special exemption the the leadership over at Augusta said you know what I think it’s right that we invite
Yakim Neiman over he won the Australian Open last year he’s been talking about he says I want to play the Mages I got to get in first and you know what he’s been stepping outside of Liv to try to punch that ticket to the MS he’s playing
On the Asian tour he played on the Australian Open and it’s a great it’s great to see that you know Fred Ridley and the guys at Augusta really stepped up and uh they’re being the adults in the room because they’re inviting somebody that a lot of the PGA Tour
Pundits didn’t want there because he went to live he took the money they’re like oh if you go to live and take the money you don’t deserve to play in the majors but you know what wae Neiman is a top 30 player in the world right now not
To mention he’s the top South American player in the world and the Masters is all about spreading the international game and wae Neiman’s going to do that and the other two picks that getting special exemptions are going to do that as well you got a Rio H hsun I don’t
Know if I’m pronouncing that correctly 21 years old European tour rookie of the year the first Japanese player to be European tour rookie of the Year from Japan he will be getting an invitation as well as well as dor bur olison of Denmark he’s been playing some great
Golf as well now the people are going to say who is missing from this list T guch won three four times on Liv last year should he be on the list some rankings have him in the top 10 top 15 in the world right now uh you got Dean burm who
Has been playing great on the European tour he’s had a bunch of great finishes uh you have Lou usen who’s been playing good on live as well as got a win on the DP World Tour as well and there’s a few others but personally I think Neiman was
The most deserving as well as his atun and um olison the only other guy that I would say probably deserves a spot would be Taylor G as well but you know what you can’t begas can’t be chooses okay Augusta made the choice they made the right decision they gave Neiman a
Special exemption and it’ll be ni to see because you know what nean goes out there and gets a top five top three I don’t know what the qualifications are but he already has a spot in the open this year but if he gets a top three a
Top five he’ll be able to punch tickets to the US Open the PGA Championship as well so it’s great for the game and we’ve seen the numbers dwindle for Live players in uh Augusta at the Masters you know the first year in 20122 there was 22 golfers that played the Masters then
I believe it went down to 18 this year we only have 13 and a lot of those guys are Past Masters winners you got John ROM Dustin Johnson Patrick Reed Sergio Garcia Phil Michelson um Charles schatzel uh you have people that are former major winners as Bryson D Shambo you have
Cameron Smith Terrell Hatton and Adrian Moran got it because they just joined live and they are in the top 50 of the official world golf rankings and I’m missing a few guys as well right now um I apologize for that um but oh Brooks kepka obviously PGA Champion um so those
Are that’s 11 guys name in 12 I’m missing one guy I apologize for whoever it is it’s probably a big name that I’m just not remembering right now so I apologize but it’s great to see 13 live golfers in the field right now now will there be more who knows you know let’s
Say teuch goes out and wins in Jetta or Hong Kong coming up in March Maybe he will uh gu isn’t playing on the Asian tour this week in Oman maybe what happens if David uh p uh David puug goes out and wins in Oman back-to-back winning tournaments on the international
Series Asian tour maybe he will but again waim Neiman gets his spot special exemption uh along with uh RI hiton and dor bong olison and it’s great to see like I said Augusta really stepped up and they were the first people like honestly the the the golf world is going
To go off of what Augusta says they’re going to let Augusta lead the way back in 2022 when live golf started you know they didn’t know or or 2023 because it started in June so 2023 was the first Masters that Liv golfers could play and they didn’t know if they would let the
Live guys play and they said if you’re you know qualified and you have an exemption into the tournament you can play it doesn’t matter what tour you can play on and the PGA Championship the US Open the open you know they followed suit so it’s nice to see that the masses
Are doing it again and giving these special exemptions so you know what maybe you know you have somebody like gu go off on a you know 3 four win tear you know win an Asian Tour event maybe the PGA will give them a special exemption
Or the US Open now the US Open and the open are different because you can actually physically go qualify for that which I’m sure a lot of live guys will um but AUST the leading the pack waim Neeman is a player that gets a special exemption into the Masters in April and
It’s only seven weeks away Neiman’s playing well he won in myoba uh he’s playing this week in Oman he has Hong Kong and jeda coming up on the Liv golf tour so it’ll be nice to see what he can do and torque is my favorite team on Liv
Right now they got a great team waim Neiman Sebastian Munoz Carlos Ortiz Mido Pereira we saw Mido Pereira contend and at the PGA he struggled down the stretch 18 hit it into the water Justin Thomas came from like 67 back to win that PGA Championship uh we haven’t seen much out
Of Ortiz and Munos in the majors but they young guys man they young studs and I really like the team and I really think they got these guys can make some noise so Neiman into the Masters again we spoke about a ton of stuff last night
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Vamos the Masters 🔥
Cam Smith was the guy you forgot
Yeah Gooch, Oosthuizen, and Bumeister should be there.
British and US Opens have qualifying though. So lots of lIV guys will get in through that. Moreso than last year.